{"quotes":[{"text":"Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume.","author":"Richie Norton","tags":["consume","consumers","create","creators","entrepreneurship"],"id":7851,"author_id":"Richie+Norton"},{"text":"When life hasn’t got a swing anymore, people may give in to obsessive oniomaniac compulsions, in as much as they are going out of their way to construct a flamboyant life style and change their identity from “don’t-need” to “must-have” consumers, so as to satisfy their gripping buying desire. ('Buying now. Dying later').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["buying-desire","compulsions","consumers","don-t-need","flamboyant","gripping","identity","life","life-style","must-have-customer","obsessive","oniomania","satisfy","swing"],"id":17679,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","buy","buyer","buyers","capitalism","childfree","childless","collapse","communism","consumer","consumerism","consumers","credit","debt","deep","democracy","dictum","dictums","economies","economy","enjoy","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","humor","humorous","humour","insightful","karl-marx","made-me-think","make-you-think","marxism","materialism","maxim","maxims","own","ownership","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","realization","realize","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","selfish-selfishness","socialism","socialist","socialists","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful","world-economies"],"id":25717,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"With the explosion of the internet has come numerous avenues for small business owners to share their expertise and position themselves as experts. And expertise is what consumers are looking for.","author":"Diane Helbig","tags":["consumers","expertise","internet","small-business-owners"],"id":28270,"author_id":"Diane+Helbig"},{"text":"Some consumers buy products not because they are ‘better” in any way, but simply because they are popular. What they’re buying is not just a product, but also a piece of popularity itself.","author":"Derek Thompson","tags":["business","consumers","fans","popularity"],"id":43674,"author_id":"Derek+Thompson"},{"text":"Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW.","author":"Roger James Hamilton","tags":["business","consumers","entrepreneur","entrepreneurs-institute","fast-forward-your-business","inspire","leadership","millionaire-master-plan","my-genius-test","wealth-dynamics","wealth-spectrum"],"id":114223,"author_id":"Roger+James+Hamilton"},{"text":"I wish to be a product not a consumer.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["consumers","inspiring","lailah-gifty-akita","life","philosophy","product","wishes","work"],"id":195952,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"One good product is better than many fake goods.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["consumers","fake","good","goods","marketing","production","sales","wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita","wise-thoughts"],"id":197169,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.","author":"Janusz Korwin-Mikke","tags":["consumers","employment","free-market","korwin-mikke"],"id":200022,"author_id":"Janusz+Korwin-Mikke"},{"text":"To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["apathy","betterment","bigotry","business","challenges","change","changes","class-wars","consumers","division","empathy","evolution","hatred","hurdles","income","materialism","peace","peace-on-earth","people","perspective","political","politics","psychological-change","race","racial","racism","scope","segregation","sight","social-change","spirituality","things","tolerance","united","unity","vision","world"],"id":227313,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}